‘Candy Bomber’ Lt. Gail S. Halvorsen, of Garland, Utah, who started the airlift's ‘Operation Little Vittles’ for candy-starved Berlin children, demonstrates how handkerchief parachutes were used to drop sweets. The 28-year-old lieutenant described the operation of the project at an interview in New York, Jan. 24, 1949. His duties with the Berlin airlift are ended, and he is in the U.S. for reassignment. His work of supplying the Berlin children with candy will be carried on under the supervision of Capt. Lawrence l. Caskey, of Enid, Okla. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)

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